July It is my month, that is why today I fall 47 one after another. So I'll run through a few writers who were also born this month with some of the phrases that they uttered or wrote. There are many more, but I leave myself to a couple or three big names that deserve articles of their own.

2 July

1877. Hermann Hesse, German writer, Nobel laureate in 1946.

“Soft is stronger than hard; water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than violence ”.

1883. Frank Kafka.

“I am the novel. I am my stories ”. 

1888. Ramon Gomez de la Serna.

"Writing is that they let one cry and laugh alone." 

4 July

1804. nathaniel hawthorne.

"What dungeon is darker than the heart itself? What jailer is more inexorable than oneself?

1927. Neil Simon.

Writing is an escape from the world. I like to be alone in a room. It is almost a form of meditation, an investigation of my own life ”.

5 July

1889. Jean Cocteau.

"Victor Hugo was a madman posing as Victor Hugo."

8 July

1889. Jean de laFontaine.

"All the brains in the world are powerless against whatever stupid is in fashion."

9 July

1764. Ann Radcliffe

“Oh, all this can be useful to show that, although the vicious can sometimes bring affliction to the good, their power is transitory and their punishment certain; and that the innocent, though oppressed by injustice, supported by patience, may finally triumph over misfortune! "

10 July

1871. Marcel Proust

"The only true voyage of discovery consists not in searching for new landscapes, but in looking with new eyes."

11 July

1561. Luis de Gongora.

“The words, wax; the steel works. "

12 July

1817. Henry Thoreau.

"Before love, money, faith, fame and justice, give me the truth."

1904. Pablo Neruda.

“The books that help you the most are those that make you think the most. A great book by a great thinker is a vessel of thought, loaded with beauty and truth ”.

15 July

1919. Iris Murdock.

"God, if He existed, would laugh at His creation."

16 July

1943. Reinaldo Arenas.

"Trees have a secret life that is only made known to those who climb them."

17 July

1811. William Makepeace Thackeray.

"Without a doubt a prudent love is better, but it is preferable to love madly than to lack all love."

20 July

1304. Francesco Petrarch.

"Just as the navigator whom the strong wind discourages looks at two lights of the night sky, the same, in my storm of Love, I look at two lights at the bright sign in which I find my only consolation."

21 July

1899. Ernest Hemingway.

"You love me, but you don't know it yet."

22 July

1888. Raymond Chandler.

"The first kiss is magical, the second intimate, the third routine."

23 July

1886. Savior of Madariaga.

"Conscience does not prevent us from committing sins, but unfortunately it does prevent us from enjoying them."

24 July

1895. Robert Graves.

"If I were a woman I would be desperate. The existence of good women far exceeds the men who deserve them ”.

26 July

1856. Bernard Shaw.

“If you have built castles in the air, your work is not lost; now place the bases under them ”.

1875. Antonio Machado.

“In his heart he had the thorn of a passion. I managed to rip it off one day: I no longer feel my heart ”.

1925. Ana Maria Matute.

“The word is the most beautiful thing that has been created, it is the most important of all that we human beings have. The word is what saves us ”.

27 July

1939. Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.

"In times of crisis of certainties and dogmas, what would become of us without metaphors and without vices?"

29 July

1909. Chester Himes.

“American violence is public life, which is a way of public life, it became a form, a form of a detective story. So I must think that any number of black writers should be put in the form of a detective story. "

31 July

1965. J. K. Rowling.

"It is important to remember that we all have magic within us."